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Also the question and the OA is derived from the quote, which doesn't have to be grammatically correct.

Praetorian - Pretorian adjective characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality; `a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble`- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

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25 Dec 2010, 13:01

rohitgoel15 wrote:

A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble

A) A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes troubleB) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled from ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble C) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people make work and make trouble D) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble E) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and trouble

What not E?

What is the source The Question looks incomplete to me

Choose E over D for its succinctness
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26 Dec 2010, 04:29

rohitgoel15 wrote:

A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble A) A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes troubleB) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled from ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble C) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people make work and make trouble D) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble E) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and trouble What not E?

(D)

A) A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble --> Error in parallelismB) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled from ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble --> It should be 'filled with'C) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people make work and make trouble --> Error in subject-verb agreementD) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble --> Correct. subject-verb agreement & parallelismE) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and trouble --> Error in parallelism
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